0:00:02 > 0:00:03# Terrible Tudors, gorgeous Georgians
0:00:03 > 0:00:05# Slimy Stuarts, vile Victorians
0:00:05 > 0:00:07# Woeful wars, ferocious fights Dingy castles, daring knights
0:00:07 > 0:00:10# Horrors that defy description Cut-throat Celts, awful Egyptians
0:00:10 > 0:00:13# Vicious Vikings, cruel crime Punishments from ancient times
0:00:13 > 0:00:14# Roman, rotten, rank and ruthless
0:00:14 > 0:00:16# Cavemen, savage Fierce and toothless
0:00:16 > 0:00:18# Groovy Greeks, reigning stages Mean and measly Middle Ages
0:00:18 > 0:00:20# Gory stories, we do that
0:00:20 > 0:00:23# And your host, a talking rat
0:00:23 > 0:00:26# The past is no longer a mystery
0:00:26 > 0:00:27# Welcome to... #
0:00:36 > 0:00:39Scrappus! Scrappus!
0:00:39 > 0:00:41Scrappus! Oh, where's he gone now?
0:00:41 > 0:00:42Ooh, hello, there!
0:00:42 > 0:00:46My nephew's staying with me and he is a real handful. Ha!
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Scrappus! There you are.
0:00:48 > 0:00:50Come on in here.
0:00:50 > 0:00:53I'm going to put on some of our brilliant songs to distract him.
0:00:53 > 0:00:57Come on, Scrappus. Look at the funny Greek Philosophers.
0:00:57 > 0:00:58# Here we come
0:00:58 > 0:01:01# Through the market square
0:01:01 > 0:01:03# With our funny
0:01:03 > 0:01:05# Clothes and hair
0:01:05 > 0:01:07# Aristotle
0:01:07 > 0:01:08# And Socrates
0:01:08 > 0:01:10- # Plato - And Diogenes
0:01:10 > 0:01:15# Four fab scholars With our Greek philosophies
0:01:15 > 0:01:19# Hey, hey! We're the thinkers
0:01:19 > 0:01:24# Wonderin' what life is for
0:01:24 > 0:01:29# We're paid to try and think up
0:01:29 > 0:01:34# The answer to that and more
0:01:34 > 0:01:36# People found me irritating
0:01:36 > 0:01:38# Thanks to my interrogating
0:01:38 > 0:01:41# Like a toddler Was always asking why
0:01:43 > 0:01:45# What is wisdom? What is beauty?
0:01:45 > 0:01:47# What is nature? What is duty?
0:01:47 > 0:01:52# Taught everything I know to this next guy
0:01:52 > 0:01:54# I'm Plato, was his pupil thinker
0:01:54 > 0:01:56# Ended up with inky fingers
0:01:56 > 0:02:01# Writing every word he taught me down
0:02:01 > 0:02:03# Also had my own theory
0:02:03 > 0:02:05# Like for everything that we see
0:02:05 > 0:02:09# There's a perfect version to be found
0:02:09 > 0:02:10# Ooooohhh!
0:02:10 > 0:02:14# Hey, hey! We're the thinkers
0:02:14 > 0:02:19# Mega brainy ancient Greeks
0:02:19 > 0:02:23# We're always busy thinking
0:02:23 > 0:02:29# Cos the truth is what we seek
0:02:29 > 0:02:31# My name is Diogenes
0:02:31 > 0:02:33# I'm not one to say thanks or please
0:02:33 > 0:02:38# Hugged statues and walked barefoot in the snow
0:02:38 > 0:02:39# Never believed in possessions
0:02:39 > 0:02:42# Thought they gave the wrong impression
0:02:42 > 0:02:45# Put faith in total freedom Don't ya know?
0:02:47 > 0:02:48# I studied at Plato's Academy
0:02:48 > 0:02:51# Taught Alex the Great I know everything, me
0:02:51 > 0:02:56# Intrigued by the world Wanted to show it all
0:02:56 > 0:02:58# I took all their theories higher
0:02:58 > 0:03:01# Discovered water, ether, earth, air and fire
0:03:01 > 0:03:05# Learned every science I'm Mister Know-It-All
0:03:05 > 0:03:10# Hey, hey! We're the thinkers
0:03:10 > 0:03:14# Very witty, very wise
0:03:14 > 0:03:18# No-one can hoodwink us
0:03:18 > 0:03:22# We are Athens' brainiest guys
0:03:22 > 0:03:25# Not everyone likes smarties though
0:03:25 > 0:03:28# Even Socrates had his foe
0:03:28 > 0:03:30# When tried for treason He simply said... #
0:03:30 > 0:03:32Why?
0:03:32 > 0:03:34# They sentenced him to drink hemlock
0:03:34 > 0:03:35# He said...
0:03:35 > 0:03:38# You know if I take stock I am annoying
0:03:38 > 0:03:42# I'll take that and die
0:03:42 > 0:03:46# Hey, hey! We're the thinkers
0:03:46 > 0:03:50# Politicians gave us strife
0:03:50 > 0:03:54# But we don't give a tinkers
0:03:54 > 0:04:00# Cos we taught them all about life.
0:04:00 > 0:04:04# Oooooooooh. #
0:04:05 > 0:04:06What did you think? Hmm?
0:04:06 > 0:04:10You especially liked the gory bit about Socrates dying?
0:04:10 > 0:04:11I bet you did.
0:04:11 > 0:04:14Well, if you like gore, you'll love the Tudors.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17Here's Mary I.
0:04:24 > 0:04:25# King Henry Eighth, my father
0:04:25 > 0:04:27# Hoped I'd have some Tudor brothers
0:04:27 > 0:04:31# Mum had no sons, so rather I got plenty of stepmothers
0:04:31 > 0:04:33# When at last Prince Ed was born
0:04:33 > 0:04:35# The crown I bid adieu
0:04:35 > 0:04:36# They said as King he must be sworn
0:04:36 > 0:04:39# Boys go first in the queue
0:04:39 > 0:04:42# But there's no need to worry if at first you don't succeed
0:04:42 > 0:04:48# When Ed died I swept aside the rest and was decreed...
0:04:48 > 0:04:51# Mary I, that's me
0:04:51 > 0:04:54# Tudor lady and Queen of England
0:04:54 > 0:04:59# Not to be confused with Mary Queen of Scots
0:04:59 > 0:05:03# Not the same, see Though weirdly
0:05:03 > 0:05:08# She's a cousin to me
0:05:08 > 0:05:11# Some tried to say Lady Jane Grey should be Queen after Ed
0:05:11 > 0:05:15# But England wanted me, hooray! So poor Jane lost her head
0:05:15 > 0:05:18# The Protestants were saying that my ruling made them sick
0:05:18 > 0:05:22# Cos when it came to praying my tastes were Cath-o-lic
0:05:22 > 0:05:25# They revolted, challenged me Fuelled my great desire
0:05:25 > 0:05:30# To tie 300 to a stake Light touch paper, then retire
0:05:30 > 0:05:33# Mary I, that's me
0:05:33 > 0:05:37# Called the Bloody Queen of England
0:05:37 > 0:05:42# Not what I intended Tried to be good, you see
0:05:42 > 0:05:46# But history only remembers
0:05:46 > 0:05:50# I was a catastrophe
0:05:50 > 0:05:55# Married Philip, King of Spain, who then left me
0:05:55 > 0:05:58# England thought he was a pain especially
0:05:58 > 0:06:01# Cos he told me to attack France with troops
0:06:01 > 0:06:05# And when the French advanced we lost Calais, oops!
0:06:05 > 0:06:08# Throughout my reign, it rained and rained - it poured upon the poor
0:06:08 > 0:06:10# The harvest failed No food remained
0:06:10 > 0:06:12# And flu killed many more
0:06:12 > 0:06:15# Burned protestants and wed a fool Led armies to defeat
0:06:15 > 0:06:18# Burned more Prots, I'd say my rule was short but not that sweet
0:06:18 > 0:06:22# I had no kids, named half-sis Liz as Big Queen Bess to be
0:06:22 > 0:06:27# So long as she would rule the land as a Catholic Queen like me
0:06:27 > 0:06:29# Lizee didn't listen
0:06:29 > 0:06:33# She made the country Protestant
0:06:33 > 0:06:39# Meaning my legacy was ruined, see
0:06:39 > 0:06:42# Everything I tried to achieve
0:06:42 > 0:06:47# Went down the Swanee. #
0:06:47 > 0:06:50Bit embarrassing, really.
0:06:50 > 0:06:54Yes, Elizabeth taking over brought a sea change in religion
0:06:54 > 0:06:58and a sea change in language too, thanks to her favourite playwright,
0:06:58 > 0:07:02William Shakespeare, who came up with the phrase "a sea change."
0:07:02 > 0:07:04He-he-he!
0:07:10 > 0:07:14# My name is Shakespeare William
0:07:14 > 0:07:17# I owned a feather quill, I am
0:07:17 > 0:07:22# The writer most familiar to you
0:07:24 > 0:07:27# My way with words amazes me
0:07:27 > 0:07:30# Came up with so many phrases, me
0:07:30 > 0:07:37# That still the number dazes me too
0:07:37 > 0:07:38# Oh...
0:07:45 > 0:07:47# Yeah, each of these quotes You will find
0:07:47 > 0:07:50# It's what I do
0:07:52 > 0:07:53# That's one of his
0:07:55 > 0:07:57# He is the biz!
0:07:59 > 0:08:05# They call me Billy Whizz
0:08:05 > 0:08:08# May seem kinda scary I'm a walking diction-ary
0:08:08 > 0:08:11# Sturdy with the wordy Shakespeare
0:08:21 > 0:08:23# My phrases you'll note
0:08:34 > 0:08:39# You can quote
0:08:39 > 0:08:43# Oh, you suffered Green-eyed jealousy
0:08:43 > 0:08:46# Please do not stand on ceremony
0:08:46 > 0:08:48# I wrote The Queen's English
0:08:48 > 0:08:52# Queen's English I wrote
0:08:54 > 0:08:55# That's a Shakespeare line
0:08:57 > 0:08:59# He was the first to combine
0:09:00 > 0:09:07# Yeah, that was one of mine
0:09:07 > 0:09:10# Don't call me flaky I'm William Shakey
0:09:10 > 0:09:14# Not lazy with the phrasy Shakespeare
0:09:14 > 0:09:17# I was the greatest, I was ace
0:09:17 > 0:09:21# To find a better writer that's a wild-goose chase
0:09:21 > 0:09:24# I was truly brilliant Which is why I sing...
0:09:35 > 0:09:36# Did you ever know?
0:09:38 > 0:09:40# From a Shakespeare show
0:09:51 > 0:09:55# The nation's favourite bard Shakespeare
0:09:55 > 0:09:57# Doobee Doobe Doobee...
0:09:58 > 0:10:01# Shoobeedoobeedobee, Shakespeare. #
0:10:01 > 0:10:03APPLAUSE
0:10:05 > 0:10:07Oh, song's finished, song's finished!
0:10:07 > 0:10:09We'd better put another one on. Ooh, aah.
0:10:09 > 0:10:11Eh, what flavour crisps are they?
0:10:11 > 0:10:13They're whatever else was rotting-in-the-bin flavour. Ha!
0:10:13 > 0:10:17Now, Scrappus loves American stuff, so he's going to love this,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20it's the story of the founders of the USA.
0:10:20 > 0:10:24Did you know they actually came from the Midlands? Mm.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37# We're the Pilgrim Fathers You may have heard rather
0:10:37 > 0:10:40# A lot 'bout our notion Crossing the ocean
0:10:40 > 0:10:41# On the good ship Mayflower
0:10:41 > 0:10:45# Though it's true our journey turned into quite a commotion
0:10:45 > 0:10:47# People report that we sported these hats
0:10:47 > 0:10:50# But that's not true I mean - would you?
0:10:50 > 0:10:53# Anyway, the main thing to say We began the USA
0:10:53 > 0:10:57# Our little band of religion fans from the East Midlands
0:10:57 > 0:10:59# We all believed slowly
0:10:59 > 0:11:01# That England was becoming less holy
0:11:01 > 0:11:04# So set off for Holland cos there we had friends
0:11:04 > 0:11:06# But in the end seemed the Netherlands
0:11:06 > 0:11:08# Would never be the land we'd planned
0:11:08 > 0:11:10# Couldn't stand to remain on that terrain
0:11:10 > 0:11:13# So again we re-arranged to start a new nation
0:11:13 > 0:11:16# With our congregation A new and calmer life
0:11:16 > 0:11:19# Took a farmer and a builder and his wife
0:11:19 > 0:11:21# And a cleric-ah, to find Americ-ah
0:11:21 > 0:11:25# Oh, it's a New World
0:11:25 > 0:11:29# It wasn't new to the natives
0:11:29 > 0:11:31# Still, we thought we'd claim it
0:11:31 > 0:11:33# Yeah, it's the New World
0:11:33 > 0:11:35# I still remember Ninth of November
0:11:35 > 0:11:38# The year 1620 and we saw plenty of land
0:11:38 > 0:11:41# We thanked God when we found ground
0:11:41 > 0:11:43# At Cape Cod But it didn't go as planned
0:11:43 > 0:11:46# Couldn't land on the sand
0:11:46 > 0:11:49# A month later though we made it
0:11:49 > 0:11:52# New Plymouth, man We claimed it
0:11:52 > 0:11:54# The natives said "not" But ran when we shot
0:11:54 > 0:11:57# Moved there, it proved, yeah that life would be tough
0:11:57 > 0:12:00# Cos we didn't have enough of the right stuff
0:12:00 > 0:12:03# Did you know? Had no seeds we could grow
0:12:03 > 0:12:05# Although William Mullins had stacked
0:12:05 > 0:12:09# 126 pairs of shoes in his pack Now, that's whack!
0:12:09 > 0:12:12# A fishing rod, a plough a pig or a cow
0:12:12 > 0:12:13# Would've been a much better idea
0:12:13 > 0:12:15# But now, there's no food for us to eat
0:12:15 > 0:12:19# Does this mean that we'll meet with defeat?
0:12:19 > 0:12:24# No fun in the New World
0:12:24 > 0:12:27# I'm glad we've arrived here
0:12:27 > 0:12:30# But will we survive here?
0:12:30 > 0:12:31# Yeah, in the New World
0:12:31 > 0:12:34# People were starving Our numbers halving
0:12:34 > 0:12:37# When the winter winds blew even fewer lived through
0:12:37 > 0:12:39# It wasn't pretty in our new city
0:12:39 > 0:12:42# But the natives took pity even though they didn't have to
0:12:42 > 0:12:45# Man called Squanto showed us how to grow maize
0:12:45 > 0:12:48# Catch eel for a meal Build shelter in the bays
0:12:48 > 0:12:51# Tribe gave us a feast Our starvation ceased
0:12:51 > 0:12:53# In 1621, what they had done
0:12:53 > 0:12:56# Turned us back from the dead to the living
0:12:56 > 0:12:58# And to this day that's why we have Thanksgiving
0:12:58 > 0:13:03# In Massachusetts Built a colony, it's true
0:13:03 > 0:13:08# They say modern America was founded by our crew
0:13:08 > 0:13:11# It's a New World
0:13:11 > 0:13:14# But we can't call it England
0:13:14 > 0:13:18# Let's call it New England
0:13:18 > 0:13:20# Yeah, it's a New World
0:13:20 > 0:13:22# My home was in Plymouth Let's call this New Plymouth
0:13:22 > 0:13:25# I got an idea Let's call this New Hampshire
0:13:25 > 0:13:28# Wahey, I'm from Newcastle Can we call it New Newcastle? #
0:13:28 > 0:13:30Nah.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34# It's a New World. #
0:13:34 > 0:13:36I'm glad you're enjoying the songs, Scrappus,
0:13:36 > 0:13:38but do calm down!
0:13:38 > 0:13:39SHATTER! CRACK!
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Oh, Scrappus, you're like a Georgian Luddite, smashing things up.
0:13:42 > 0:13:44Ooh, which reminds me,
0:13:44 > 0:13:45here they are now.
0:13:51 > 0:13:53# We were weavers, highly skilled
0:13:53 > 0:13:56# Till things were mechanised
0:13:56 > 0:13:59# Craft and artisanship killed
0:13:59 > 0:14:02# A threat to all our lives
0:14:02 > 0:14:05# Machines meant The workforce shrunk
0:14:05 > 0:14:07# You think you'd see us settle?
0:14:07 > 0:14:10# When bosses said "Let's junk each punk
0:14:10 > 0:14:16# "And replace you with heavy metal"
0:14:16 > 0:14:19# Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddites!
0:14:19 > 0:14:21# The working man was sacrificed
0:14:21 > 0:14:24# Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddites!
0:14:24 > 0:14:30# Turned us into Anar-chists
0:14:33 > 0:14:35# Industrial Revolution
0:14:35 > 0:14:38# Our old life overthrown
0:14:38 > 0:14:41# So we came up with a solution
0:14:41 > 0:14:44# A revolution of our own
0:14:44 > 0:14:46# Met in the hills and planned to smash
0:14:46 > 0:14:50# Their weaving machines of gloom
0:14:50 > 0:14:52# Hear that sweet music as we bash
0:14:52 > 0:14:54# A-wop-bop-a-loo-mop
0:14:54 > 0:14:57# A-wop-bam-boom!
0:14:58 > 0:15:01# Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddites!
0:15:01 > 0:15:04# Industrial weaving It's a stitch-up!
0:15:04 > 0:15:06# Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddites!
0:15:06 > 0:15:10# Break the device and smash my switch up!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14# We named our movement after Ned Ludd
0:15:14 > 0:15:17# A folk hero who myth proclaimed
0:15:17 > 0:15:20# Once reacted in a fit of rage
0:15:20 > 0:15:23# By smashing up some knitting frames
0:15:23 > 0:15:26# So we formed the new Luddite Army
0:15:26 > 0:15:27# Started to riot
0:15:27 > 0:15:29# It all went barmy
0:15:34 > 0:15:37# Laws were passed to shake our will
0:15:37 > 0:15:39# Sent soldiers armed with guns
0:15:39 > 0:15:42# And though we tried to break things still
0:15:42 > 0:15:45# We fought the law But the law won
0:15:45 > 0:15:48# Trial and punishments were seen
0:15:48 > 0:15:51# It's clear we'd lost the fight
0:15:51 > 0:15:54# But thanks to us Rage Against the Machine
0:15:54 > 0:15:59# Now carries the name...Ludd-ite!
0:15:59 > 0:16:02# Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddites!
0:16:02 > 0:16:05# This band's struggle carries on
0:16:05 > 0:16:08# Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddite! Luddites!
0:16:08 > 0:16:12# Won't rest till machines are all gone. #
0:16:15 > 0:16:17Solo!
0:16:17 > 0:16:19On, on what exactly?
0:16:20 > 0:16:24Those Georgian Luddites were most uncouth,
0:16:24 > 0:16:26not like us Victorians.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29We were polite, well-mannered and romantic.
0:16:29 > 0:16:32We took our lead from our Queen, you know.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42# For 40 years, I ruled alone
0:16:42 > 0:16:44# Shed all those tears while on the throne
0:16:44 > 0:16:48# What got me through the pain and hurt
0:16:48 > 0:16:51# Was clinging to the memory of Albert
0:16:51 > 0:16:54# I loved her so, my darling Vicki
0:16:54 > 0:16:58# So much, you know almost made me sickie
0:16:58 > 0:17:01# I was not liked in your country
0:17:01 > 0:17:06# But who cares when I had her love for me?
0:17:06 > 0:17:10# Her love for me
0:17:10 > 0:17:13# Oh, V and A Oh, A and V
0:17:13 > 0:17:16# Each way, it still spells L-O-V-E
0:17:16 > 0:17:20# Oh, A and V Oh, V and A
0:17:20 > 0:17:25# They'll name a building after us one day
0:17:30 > 0:17:33# In love from our first rendezvous
0:17:33 > 0:17:36# As Queen, had to propose to you
0:17:36 > 0:17:40# You were my rock in a crisis
0:17:40 > 0:17:43# Like when someone tried to shoot you but they missed
0:17:43 > 0:17:46# We were a real celebrity pair
0:17:46 > 0:17:47# Was first Queen Vic
0:17:47 > 0:17:50- # First Albert - Square!
0:17:50 > 0:17:52# The press watched every smile and flirt
0:17:52 > 0:17:58# Called us Alboria but I preferred Vicbert
0:17:58 > 0:18:02# You can call me Al
0:18:02 > 0:18:05# Oh, Bert and Vic Oh, Vic and Bert
0:18:05 > 0:18:09# Nine kids, great family advert!
0:18:09 > 0:18:11# Oh, Vic and Bert Oh, Bert and Vic
0:18:11 > 0:18:16# Yet I found babies ugly, ironic
0:18:16 > 0:18:19Urgh! My eyes!
0:18:21 > 0:18:24# We set trends Started new traditions
0:18:24 > 0:18:27# Christmas trees Wearing tartan with style
0:18:27 > 0:18:31# Albert backed the Great Exhibition
0:18:31 > 0:18:36# Which made Great Britain Albert-o-phile
0:18:36 > 0:18:37At last!
0:18:37 > 0:18:40# Oh, Vic and Al Oh, Al and Vic
0:18:40 > 0:18:44# You showed our kids love with your stick
0:18:44 > 0:18:47# Oh, Al and Vic Oh, Vic and Al
0:18:47 > 0:18:53# Ours was a truly grand affair royale
0:18:57 > 0:19:00# Then Albert died which left just me
0:19:00 > 0:19:04# Just V, no A No A, just V
0:19:04 > 0:19:08# Oh, how I mourned my special pal
0:19:08 > 0:19:09# I loved you, Vic
0:19:09 > 0:19:12# I loved you, Al. #
0:19:17 > 0:19:20It's for your own good, Scrappus.
0:19:20 > 0:19:21Now, after Albert's death,
0:19:21 > 0:19:25Victoria ruled for 40 years on her own.
0:19:25 > 0:19:28Victorian women were very good at picking themselves up
0:19:28 > 0:19:30and getting on with things.
0:19:34 > 0:19:37# Me name Mary Seacole, famous nurse
0:19:37 > 0:19:39# To the Crimean boys
0:19:39 > 0:19:42# No, me not Florence Nightingale
0:19:42 > 0:19:44# That mix up me annoys
0:19:44 > 0:19:47# Me learn me skills ina Jamaica
0:19:47 > 0:19:49# Where me mother nurse the sick
0:19:49 > 0:19:52# And I think it my destiny, child
0:19:52 > 0:19:54# To be a war medic
0:19:54 > 0:19:57# If ya coughin' then you should have a drink with it
0:19:57 > 0:19:59# If ya diet's poor you should really think 'pon it
0:19:59 > 0:20:01# If it's cholera re-hydration's best for it
0:20:01 > 0:20:05# If it's fever better take some rest for it
0:20:05 > 0:20:09# Wha-ho-ho, wha-oh-oh Wha-oh-oh-oh
0:20:09 > 0:20:11# History still says me name
0:20:11 > 0:20:14# Cos me not one to moan
0:20:14 > 0:20:17# Me ask me friend Thomas Day for help
0:20:17 > 0:20:19# And set up 'pon my own
0:20:19 > 0:20:22# If ya need it put a mustard plaster 'pon it
0:20:22 > 0:20:24# If ya bleedin' shouldn't be disaster for it
0:20:24 > 0:20:26# If ya leg broke going to need a cast on it
0:20:26 > 0:20:29# If ya constipated take oil o' castor for it
0:20:29 > 0:20:33# Wha-ho-ho, wha-oh-oh Wha-oh-oh-oh
0:20:33 > 0:20:36# Once here, in Crimea
0:20:36 > 0:20:39# Me became a pioneer
0:20:39 > 0:20:41# Me carpenters engineered
0:20:41 > 0:20:44# A hotel at the new frontier
0:20:44 > 0:20:46# Set up on the front line in 1855
0:20:46 > 0:20:49# Independent woman saving soldiers' lives... #
0:20:49 > 0:20:51Welcome to the British Hotel!
0:20:51 > 0:20:54# Me boarding house became the haunt
0:20:54 > 0:20:56# Of the great and good
0:20:56 > 0:20:58# Though it wasn't glamorous
0:20:58 > 0:21:01# It was built o' old bits o' wood
0:21:01 > 0:21:03# Supplied the troops with kit and clothes
0:21:03 > 0:21:06# Served both the rich and poor
0:21:06 > 0:21:09# Me nursed right 'pon the battlefield
0:21:09 > 0:21:11# While Florence work'd far from the war
0:21:11 > 0:21:13# I'm a nursing lady Put a splint on it
0:21:13 > 0:21:16# Me see a wounded man Better sprint to it
0:21:16 > 0:21:18# Earned fame from the war and my stint in it
0:21:18 > 0:21:21# But the Crimean shame is me a skint from it
0:21:21 > 0:21:23# When the war was done
0:21:23 > 0:21:26# Me never have a dime
0:21:26 > 0:21:28# Despite the work me do
0:21:28 > 0:21:31# Bankruptcy was mine
0:21:31 > 0:21:33# I'm a fierce lady Never fazed by it
0:21:33 > 0:21:36# Wrote a book and earned funds raised by it
0:21:36 > 0:21:38# Me hotel, men owed their lives to it. #
0:21:38 > 0:21:42Going down in history, that's me prize for it.
0:21:43 > 0:21:48Another famous Victorian pioneer was Charles Darwin.
0:21:48 > 0:21:50If you promise to behave you can come out.
0:21:54 > 0:21:56# Ooh...
0:21:56 > 0:21:57# Yeah
0:21:58 > 0:22:02# Ooh... Yeah
0:22:03 > 0:22:06# People thought all animals arrived here unrelated
0:22:06 > 0:22:11# The world began and then came man all perfectly created
0:22:11 > 0:22:14# But then someone looked up a tree
0:22:14 > 0:22:18# And said "That monkey looks just like me"
0:22:18 > 0:22:23# So it really was a mystery
0:22:23 > 0:22:26# What I'd learned in natural history...
0:22:26 > 0:22:29# So I joined HMS Beagle
0:22:29 > 0:22:31# Watched the eagle and the seagull
0:22:31 > 0:22:35# We studied rocks and plants Flowers, trees and bees and ants
0:22:35 > 0:22:39# Slept on hammocks without pillows Eating rats and armadillos
0:22:39 > 0:22:43# Till I realised on reflection...
0:22:43 > 0:22:49# It's nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion
0:22:49 > 0:22:51# Ooh...
0:22:51 > 0:22:52# Yeah
0:22:52 > 0:22:56# Natural selection means each animal evolved
0:22:56 > 0:23:01# To blend with its surroundings Ch-Ch-Changes were involved
0:23:01 > 0:23:05# So birds with different foods to seek
0:23:05 > 0:23:09# Seemed had developed different beaks
0:23:09 > 0:23:12# And over time they'd modified
0:23:12 > 0:23:17# So just the fittest of them all survived
0:23:17 > 0:23:21# On the Isles of Galapagos I noted the giant tortoise
0:23:21 > 0:23:26# Had interesting shells And I rode on them as well
0:23:26 > 0:23:29# Iguanas land and swimming meant my new theory was winning
0:23:29 > 0:23:33# It all led in the direction
0:23:33 > 0:23:39# Of nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion
0:23:39 > 0:23:41# My findings met with outrage
0:23:41 > 0:23:44# From the Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Church Of England and from me
0:23:47 > 0:23:50# The idea that we came from ch-ch-chimps
0:23:50 > 0:23:55# Questioned my own Christianity But it was hard to disagree
0:23:55 > 0:23:59# Every species new mutation had a perfect explanation
0:23:59 > 0:24:03# It seemed the world's inception must pre-date common perception
0:24:03 > 0:24:07# Any lack of adaptation is a fatal limitation
0:24:07 > 0:24:11# So each creature's imperfection over time gets a correction
0:24:11 > 0:24:15# Meaning animal collections grow unique means of protection
0:24:15 > 0:24:19# And to fail nature's inspection means immediate rejection
0:24:19 > 0:24:23# Which all leads to the detection
0:24:23 > 0:24:27# Of nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion
0:24:27 > 0:24:33# Nat-ur-al sel-ec-tion. #
0:24:37 > 0:24:39Now, Scrappus, promise you won't break anything else.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42Come on, then. Let's watch this last song together.
0:24:42 > 0:24:46It's about heroic World War II fighter pilots.
0:24:46 > 0:24:47You'll really like it, Scrappus.
0:24:47 > 0:24:51Scrappus!
0:24:51 > 0:24:54AIR-RAID SIREN
0:25:02 > 0:25:07# We fighter pilots fought the German chaps in World War II
0:25:07 > 0:25:10# In Hurricanes and Spitfires performed feats of daring do
0:25:10 > 0:25:14# The finest British pilots that the world could hope to have
0:25:14 > 0:25:17- # Binky...- Stinky... - Squiffy...- Frantisek
0:25:17 > 0:25:18# And Stanislav
0:25:18 > 0:25:22# Hold fire! Is that some foreign chaps risking their necks?
0:25:22 > 0:25:27# That's right, some of the bravest men were Polish and Czech
0:25:27 > 0:25:30# We like to fire
0:25:30 > 0:25:33# Beating Jerry, our one desire
0:25:33 > 0:25:35# Ye-e-eah!
0:25:35 > 0:25:40# All we do each night is pray we'll live to fight another day
0:25:40 > 0:25:41# Take that, Hitler!
0:25:43 > 0:25:46# My name is Douglas Bader Let me tell of my ordeal
0:25:46 > 0:25:48# Lost both legs in an accident
0:25:48 > 0:25:51- # These ones are not real - They're not real
0:25:51 > 0:25:54# I left the Air Force after that Flying was a hobby
0:25:54 > 0:25:56# But when war broke in '39 came back
0:25:56 > 0:25:58# Just like Robbie
0:25:58 > 0:26:01# Shot down 22 of them Led the air attack
0:26:01 > 0:26:05# Till finally the Luftwaffe hit me back!
0:26:05 > 0:26:07# Oh, no, pretty baby
0:26:07 > 0:26:10# His plane on fire
0:26:10 > 0:26:13# Stuck in Colditz Such a shame to retire
0:26:13 > 0:26:15# Ye-e-eah!
0:26:15 > 0:26:16# Never forget This great man's story
0:26:16 > 0:26:21# And his role in Britain's glory
0:26:21 > 0:26:23# We flew in tough conditions
0:26:23 > 0:26:25# Lucky to survive five missions
0:26:25 > 0:26:26# Not that I'm complaining
0:26:26 > 0:26:29# But I've had just ten hours' training
0:26:29 > 0:26:33# Epic dogfights in the sky Outnumbered, that's why
0:26:33 > 0:26:36# We're now known by you as The Few
0:26:36 > 0:26:40- # Oooh, ooh, ahhh, ahh - Phew, he missed me!
0:26:40 > 0:26:44# The Battle of Britain was our pilots' finest hour
0:26:44 > 0:26:48# Although it seemed at first the Germans were the stronger power
0:26:48 > 0:26:49# Ooh, so strong
0:26:49 > 0:26:52# We mustered all our courage in summer 1940
0:26:52 > 0:26:56# Scrambled Air Force squadrons to fly sortie after sortie
0:26:56 > 0:27:00# Saw Nazi invasion off just as airmen should
0:27:00 > 0:27:03# Our bravery meant Hitler wouldn't be back for good
0:27:03 > 0:27:05# No, no!
0:27:05 > 0:27:07# We beat the Fuehrer
0:27:07 > 0:27:11# Without us frequent flyers your life would be poorer
0:27:11 > 0:27:12# Ye-e-eah!
0:27:12 > 0:27:15# Britain securer
0:27:15 > 0:27:19# Our story of heroics will forever endure
0:27:19 > 0:27:20# Whoa, yea-e-eah!
0:27:20 > 0:27:22# So I think you'll find It's true... #
0:27:22 > 0:27:26WINSTON CHURCHILL: "Never in the field of human conflict
0:27:26 > 0:27:31"was so much owed by so many to so few."
0:27:34 > 0:27:37# Tall tales, atrocious acts, we gave you all the fearsome facts... #
0:27:37 > 0:27:39If you enjoyed that, why not play
0:27:39 > 0:27:42the new AD/BC Time Tour music game?
0:27:42 > 0:27:44Go to the CBBC website
0:27:44 > 0:27:46and click on Horrible Histories.
0:27:46 > 0:27:47Rock on!
0:27:47 > 0:27:49# Hoped you enjoyed...
0:27:49 > 0:27:53# Horrible Histories. #